NEWS AND EVENTS

Aug 2025 Conference: Heraeus Seminar Manipulating Molecular Electronic Properties by Vibrational Excitations: Novel Spectroscopies and Microscopies, 17.-21.08. Participants: Jens (organizer). Mai 2025 Conference: TRVS (Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy), Moriyama, Japan, 25.05.-30.05. Participants: Jens (invited talk), Lara (poster). Jan 2025 Colloquium: Max-Born-Institute, 25.06., Berlin, Germany. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Nov 2024 Conference: International Conference on Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS-17), 16.11.-20.11., IIT Bombay, India. Participants: Luuk (invited talk). Sep 2024 Conference: 29th Lecture Conference on Photochemistry, 16.09.-18.09., Mainz, Germany. Participants: Caro and Max (posters). Jul 2024 Conference: Advances of Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy in Water, Biology and Materials Science, 16.07.-20.07., Telluride, USA. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Jun 2024 Conference: CMDS (Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy), 24.06.-28.06., University of York, York, UK. Participants: Lara (poster), Jens (talk). Apr 2024 Jens is elected as an international board member for the TRVS - one of our favorite conferences! Jan 2024 Seminar of the CRC 325 - Assembly Controlled Photochemical Catalysis, 29.01.-30.01., Kloster Scheyern, Scheyern, Germany. Participants: Jens (invited workshop & talk), Lara. Dec 2023 Great extension of our VIPER approach to optoelectronic materials by Artem Bakulin and his team. Research perspective with an expert opinion by Jens in Nature Materials. Nov 2023 Workshop, 24.11., National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. Participants: Jens (invited talk, online). Sep 2023 Workshop: Quantum Dynamics and Spectroscopy, 03.09.-08.09., Les Houches Physics School, Les Houches, France. Participants: Luuk (talk). Jul 2023 Conference: Vibrational Dynamics, 11.07.-15.07., Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride, USA. Participants: Jens (organizer). Jun 2023 Conference: TRVS (Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 11.06.-16.06 Participants: Jens (talk), Carolin, Hafiz, Lara, Luuk (poster). Lara received a Poster Award at the TRVS. Congratulations! May 2023 Conference: Bunsentagung, 05.06.-07.06., Berlin, Germany. Participants: Luuk (talk). Sep 2022 Conference: Meeting of the German Biophysical Society (DGfB), 25.09.-28.09., Konstanz, Germany. Luuk (talk). Jul 2022 Conference:  28th PhotoIUPAC , 17.07.-22.07., Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Participants: Lara (poster), Jens (talk). 6th HRSMC/EPA Advanced Summer School on Photochemistry, 14.07.-17.07., Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Participants: Lara (poster, selected for a talk) Lara received a Poster Award at the 28th PhotoIUPAC for her poster on VIPER 2D-IR. Congratulations! Conference: Hereaus-Seminar on Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics – The past, the present, and the future, 14.07.-17.07., Bad Honnef, Germany. Participants: Jens (organizer). Jun 2022 Conference: CMDS (Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy), 21.06.-24.06., University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA. Participants: Hafiz (poster), Hendrik (poster + talk at early career symposium), Jens (invited talk). May 2022 Julian was awarded the Walter-Greiner-Preis for the best PhD thesis in experimental physics of the department. Congratulations! Erhan did it again - great design! Our paper on Vibrational Energy Sensors is featured on the cover of Angewandte Chemie. Nov 2021 Sascha and Rafael were awarded the Wissenschaftspreis 2021 of the Physikalischer Verein - Gesellschaft für Bildung und Wissenschaft for their MSc thesis "Development of Instrumentation and Software for 2D-IR Spectroscopy and Implementation of FT-VIPER Spectroscopy". Congratulations, Sascha and Rafael!!! Jul 2021 Conference: Vibrational Dynamics, 19.07.-23.07., Telluride Science Research Center / online, Telluride, USA. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Jun 2021 Conference: TRVS, 13.06.-18.06., University of Michigan / online, Michigan, USA. Participants: Erhan, Georg, Hafiz, Hendrik, Jan, Lara, Luuk, Sarah (Posters), Jens (invited talk) Lara was selected to talk at the Early Career Symposium of the TRVS - congratulations! Congratulations to Hendrik for being awarded the Price of the Journal of Chemical Physics for his poster on VIPER labels. May 2021 Conference: Bunsentagung, 10.05.-12.05., Virtual Conference, USA. Participants: Luuk (keynote lecture), Jan (poster). Mar 2021 Invited talk (Jens): PC Seminar, Universität Basel, 17.03. Luuks contributed talk on the dynamics of PYP at the Bunsentagung got upgraded to a keynote lecture. Great work, Larissa and Luuk! Feb 2021 Marcus Hinterthan joined our group for his Forschungs- und Laborpraktikum. Great to have you here! Dec 2020 Larissa defended her thesis - Congratulations, Dr. Larissa Blankenburg! Nov 2020 Katharina defended her thesis - Congratulations, Dr. Katharina Eberl! Our recent paper "Local Dynamics of the Photo-Switchable Protein PYP in Ground and Signalling State Probed by 2D-IR Spectroscopy of -SCN Labels" was selected as HOT article by the editors of PCCP. Jiwoo Lee joined our group for her BSc research. Welcome! Oct 2020 Lara is awarded a Main Campus fellowship of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft - congratulations, Lara! Jul 2020 Conference: Advances of Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopy in Water, Biology and Materials Science, 20.07.-24.07., Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride, USA. Participants: Jens (invited talk). [canceled] Mai 2020 Lara joins our group for her BSc research - a warm welcome! Our recent paper "Photochemical mechanism of DEACM uncaging: A combined time-resolved spectroscopic and computational study " was selected as HOT article by the editors of PCCP. Another great collaborations within our CLiC network.  Apr 2020 Nadja Joachim and Moritz Doderer join our group for their BSc research - great to have you here! Our recent paper "Exploring the 2D-IR repertoire of the -SCN label to Study the Site-Resolved Dynamics and Solvation of the Calcium Sensor Protein Calmodulin" was selected as HOT article by the editors of PCCP. It reports for the first time extensive 2D-IR time series of the -SCN label in a protein. Thanks to the long vibrational lifetime of the SCN label, frequency fluctuations can be analysed up to 120 ps.  Apr 2020 Conference: 119th Bunsentagung, 01.04.-03.04., Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. Participants: Jan, Hendrik (posters), Erhan, Julian, Luuk (talks), Jens. [Canceled] Mar 2020 Conference: DPG Frühjahrstagung, 15.03.-20.03., Dresden, Germany. Participants: Larissa (talk). [Canceled] Feb 2020 Invited talk (Jens): IPTC Seminar of our colleagues in chemistry, 03.02.2020. Nov 2019 Welcome to Carolin Feid and Valentin Franz, who are starting their MSc research. Great to have you in the team! Aug 2019 Conference: ECSBM - European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules, 19.08.-22.08., University College, Dublin, Ireland. Participants: Julian (talk), Jens (invited talk). Jul 2019 Conference: Vibrational Dynamics, 08.07.-12.07., Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride, USA. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Jun 2019 Georg is awarded the Lehrpreis des Fachbereichs Physik (award for excellent teaching) - congratulations for this great achievement! Our application for beamtime at BESSY is fully accepted! Apr 2019 A warm welcome to Yunxia Shen, who joined the group for her BSc project and to Rafael Thun and Alexander Kondratiev, who started their MSc research. Great to have you here! Mar 2019 Invited lecture series on 2D-IR spectroscopy at the new Cluster of Excellence AIM (Advanced Imaging of Matter), 18.03.-20.03., Hamburg, Germany (Jens). Congratulations, Adriana, for beeing awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence of the European Commission! Feb 2019 Conference:  691th WE-Heraeus Seminar on Physical Organic Chemistry, 18.02.-21.02., Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Participants: Jens (talk). Jan 2019 Our recent paper is featured on the back cover of Angewandte Chemie with a great design by Erhan. Dec 2018 The first paper from our joint DFG Project with Ned Budisas lab (TU Berlin) is accepted and awarded VIP status in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (awarded to less than 5% of the manuscripts). It reports on "Observation of Site-Resolved Vibrational Energy Transfer Using a Genetically Encoded Ultrafast Heater". Thanks to the Berlin Crew - it is a great collaboration! Nov 2018 Our DFG research training group CLiC (Complex Light Control) will be funded for another 4.5 years. Congratulations to our students for their great work! Adriana Huerta Viga is awarded a prestigious Humboldt Fellowship to join our group in the beginning of next year. Congratulations, Adriana! We look forward to having you here. Jens is appointed as a member of the access panel of the Central Laser Facility near Oxford. Oct 2018 Erhans and Katharinas paper An automatic liquid nitrogen refilling system for small (detector) Dewar vessels was chosen as an Editor´s Pick in Rev. Sci. Instr. Patrick joined us for his BSc research in Biophysics - welcome, Patrick. Sep 2018 A warm welcome to Sarah, who joined us for her BSc in Biophysics. Jul 2018 Conference: Gordon Research Conference Vibrational Spectroscopy, 29.07-03.08., University of New England, Biddeford, USA. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Conference: Ultrafast Phenomena, 15.07-20.07., Hamburg, Germany. Participants: Luuk (talk), Jan, Julian (Posters). Jun 2018 Conference: 9th International Conference on Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS 2018), 26.06-29.06., Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Participants: Jens (invited talk). May 2018 Invited talk (Jens): PC Seminar, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, 07.05.2018. Apr 2018 Invited talk (Luuk): Max Planck Institute for Polymer Science, Mainz, 03.04.2018. Mar 2018 Conference: ACS National Meeting, 18.03.-22.03., New Orleans, USA. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Sebastian joined us for his Chemistry F-Praktikum, great to have you here. Marcel joins us for his BSc thesis in biophysics. A warm welcome! Jan 2018 Conference: Applications of IR Free-Electron Lasers: Latest Developments and Future Directions, 17.01.-20.01., Ringberg Castle, Germany. Participants: Luuk (invited talk). A warm welcome to our new PhD student Hafiz Ahmed Masood! De 2017 Our collaborative work with Irene Burghard and Fabrizio Santoro Vibrationally resolved electronic spectra including vibrational pre-excitation: Theory and application to VIPER spectroscopy was selected for the Editor´s Choice Collection of J. Chem. Phys. Nov 2017 Invited talk (Jens): Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 20.11. Erhan is awarded a Doctus Fellowship of the Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft for his PhD research - Congratulations! We welcome Andy Lee for his BSc research project in biophysics! We welcome our new secretary Christine Storck-Ratnam! Sep 2017 We welcome two new Biochemists, Christian and Matthias, who are very much interested in spectroscopy - in which case this is a good place for their research praktikum. We are happy about Deniz' decission to continue his research in our group for his Master thesis! Jul 2017 Conference: Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS 2017), 16.07-21.07., Churchill College of the University of Cambridge, UK. Participants: Jens (invited talk), Carsten, Julian, Katharina, Larissa, Luuk (posters). Jun 2017 Invited talk (Jens): Physikalisches Kolloquium, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany, 26.06. Larissa and Katharina recieve travel stipends of the Freunde und Förderer der Goethe-Univeristät to participate in the TRVS 2017 in Cambridge. Congratulations! Luuk receives a travel stipend of the Bunsengesellschaft for participating in the Bunsentagung 2017 in Kaiserslautern. Congratulations! May 2017 Conference: Quantum Dynamics and Spectroscopy in Condensed-Phase Materials and Bio-Systems, 21.-26.05., Les Houches, France. Participants: Jens (invited talk), Daniela (poster). Conference: 116th Bunsentagung, 25.-27.05., TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. Participants: Katharina (talk), Luuk (talk, poster), Carsten, Erhan, Julian, Larissa (posters). Apr 2017 Conference: ACS National Meeting, 02.-06.04., San Francisco, USA. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Mar 2017 A warm welcome to our PostDoc Bartosz Błasiak! Bartosz graduated from Minhaeng Cho's lab and will work on vibrational solvatochromism. Feb 2017 The joint DFG proposal of the Budisa lab (TU Berlin) and the Bredenbeck lab got funded! Dez 2016 Group outing - following our proven concept of culture and action: After a guided tour through many centuries of Frankfurts history at the Historisches Museum, we enjoyed a short stop over at the cristmas market for lunch. In the afternoon bouldering was on the program, followed by a well-deserved dinner at Terranova. Nov 2016 Invited talk (Jens): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany, 03.11. Invited talk (Daniela): Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany, 24.11. Oct 2016 Erhan Deniz joined the group for his PhD research - a warm welcome! Sep 2016 Conference: 25. Lecture Conference on Photochemistry, Jena, Germany, 26-28.09. Participants: Daniela (poster), Jens (talk). Conference: Electrochemistry 2016, Goslar, Germany, 26.-28.09. Participants: Julian (poster). Jun 2016 Conference: Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy VIII (CMDS), 29.06-01.07., Groningen, The Netherlands. Participants: Carsten (poster), Jens (talk), Luuk (poster), Youssef (talk). Group outing: canoeing on Lahn River. Just made it before the thunderstorm. May 2016 Conference: 115th Bunsentagung, 05.-07.05., Universität Rostock, Germany. Participants: Luuk (talk), Carsten, Daniela, Julian, Katharina, Kilian, Marcus (poster). Rike presented the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Award lecture. Daniela was awarded the PCCP poster prize for her poster on the VIPER project within the CLiC research training group - congratulations! Mar 2016 Conference: OWLS 2016 (Optics Within Life Sciences), 16.-19.03., Mumbai, India. Participants: Luuk (talk). Invited talk (Jens): Rice University, Houston, USA, 09.03. Invited talk (Jens): Tulane University, New Orleans, USA, 07.03. Invited talk (Jens): Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA, 03.03. Invited talk (Jens): University of California, Irvine, USA, 01.03. Feb 2016 Conference: 13th Discussion meeting on Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Molecules and Clusters (SDMC 2016), 18.-21.02., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune and National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Pune. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Nov 2015 Award ceremony for the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Nachwuchspreis for Rike by the Whilhelm Oswald Gesellschaft (WOG), Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft (DBG) and Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), 14.11., Großbothen. GDCh press release. Participants: Rike, Jens.  Oct 2015 Conference: DFG Round Table Discussion on Photoreceptors, 08.-12.10., Abtei Frauenwörth, Frauenchiemsee. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Jul 2015 Conference: Vibrational Dynamics, 27.-31.07., Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride, USA. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Conference: Journées d'Electrochimie, 6-10.07., University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. Participant: Youssef (Poster). Jun 2015 Invited talk (Jens): GDCh Kolloquium, Universität des Saarlandes, 15.06., Saarbrücken, Germany. Conference: TRVS 2015: 21.-26.06., University of Madison, USA. Participants: Luuk (2 posters), Rike (1 poster). Talk at the Night of Science: "Wie bewegen sich Moleküle - und wie finden wir das heraus?". Speaker: Jens. Rike is selected for the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Nachwuchspreis for her PhD thesis. It is awarded by the Whilhelm Oswald Gesellschaft (WOG), the Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft (DBG) and the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh). Congratulations! May 2015 Conference: 114th Bunsentagung, 14.-16.05., Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany. Participants: Youssef (talk), Luuk (talk). Apr 2015 Invited talk (Jens): Max-Planck-Insitute for Polymer Research, 17.02., Mainz.  Rike successfully defends her thesis and recieves a distinction for the defense. Mar 2015 Anton is selected as a participant of the 2015 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting  - congratulations! We receive funding from Förderfonds Lehre for our Biophysics Summerschool, which is part of our biophysics curriculum. Feb 2015 Conference: Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting, 07.-11.02., Baltimore, USA. Participants: Katharina (talk). Dec 2014 Welcome to Nicole Seibert, who joins the group for her Master thesis! Exciting group tour. After 90 min in complete darkness at the Dialogmuseum (a visit is highly recommended) we where sufficiently dark adapted for Lasertag. We had dinner at Frankfurter Küche, a traditional place next to the new EZB.  17.12.: Christmas Party! Oct 2014 Anton Kuzmin, Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science joins out lab on a DAAD fellowship - welcome! Jul 2014 Conference: 19th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, 7. - 11. July 2014, Okinawa. Participants: Rike (talk), Luuk (talk). Selected as HOT article in PCCP: Vibrational dynamics and solvatochromism of the label SCN in various solvents and hemoglobin by time dependent IR and 2D-IR spectroscopy. May 2014 Conference: 113th General Assembly of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, 29. - 31. May 2014, Hamburg. Participants: Carsten (talk), Luuk (poster). Invited talk: SFB 658, 15.05., FU Berlin, Germany. Speaker: Jens. Our research training group (Graduiertenkolleg) Complex Scenarios of Light Control (CLiC) will be funded by the DFG! See here for the press release. Apr 2014 A warm welcome to our new group members Jan Löffler (Biophysics, BSc thesis) Kilian Fehre (Biophysics, BSc thesis) and Markus Mikorski (Physics, MSc thesis). Anton Kuzmin, Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science is awarded a DAAD fellowship to join our lab in October - congratulations! Luuk's and Rike's papers for the Ultrafast Phenomena 2014 in Japan are accepted as oral contributions. Congratulations, Luuk and Rike! Mar 2014 Conference: DPG-Spring Meeting, AMOP Section, 17. - 21. March 2014, Berlin. Participants: Daniela (talk). Feb 2014 Katharina and Carsten hand in their Master Thesis - congratulations!! Both decided to pursue a PhD in the group :-) Dec 2013 Invited talk (Jens): GDCh Kolloquium, TU Darmstadt, 17.12., Darmstadt, Germany. Rike is awarded a Marie-Curie fellowship - well done! Rike will move to Dwayne Miller's group in Toronto and Hamburg next month to work on ultrafast electron diffraction. Have fun with the electrons :-) Oct 2013 Conference: CECAM Workshop "Frontiers of Computational Biomolecular Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry", 15.-17.10., Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Sep 2013 Tim Vogt (Physics) joins our group for his master thesis - welcome Tim!! Jul 2013 Conference: Vibrational Dynamics, 22.-26.07., Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride, USA. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Jun 2013 Andreas receives the Gernot und Carin Frank-Preis of the Frankfurter Förderverein für physikalische Grundlagenforschung for his dissertation - congratulations! Nick Bredenbeck is born on 02.06.!!! May 2013 Conference: 112th Bunsentagung, 09.-11.05., Karlsruhe, Germany. Participants: Jens (talk), Manuel (Poster). Manuel was awarded a hot topic poster prize for the poster "Ultrafast switching dynamics & solvation shell rearrangements of a photo-switchable catalyst" by Manuel, Luuk, Jens and our collaborators Susanne Gruetzner and Stefan Hecht - well done! Conference: TRVS XVI, 19.-24.05., Beppu, Japan. Participants: Luuk (Poster). Luuk recieved a poster prize for his contribution - congratulations! Rike is invited by Chancelor Angela Merkel to the conference "Frauen in Führungspositionen". Apr 2013 A warm welcome to our new group members Yannick Senger (Biophysics, BSc thesis) and Carsten Neumann (Physics, MSc thesis)! Mar 2013 Conference: DPG-Frühjahrstagung der Sektion AMOP, 18. - 22. März 2013, Hannover, Universität Hannover. Participants: Manuel (talk), Luuk (talk). Andreas succesfully defends his PhD thesis and recieves a distinction - congratulations! Installation of Laser System III and IV is finished! Feb 2013 Conference: Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting, 02.-06.02., Philadelphia, USA. Participants: Rike (talk). Dec 2012 Katharina returns from Heidelberg and starts her MSc project. Finally group lunch again ;-) Christmas Celebration of the Biophysics Institute, 19.12. Nov 2012 Invited talk (Jens): TU München, Kolloquium Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, 19.11., München, Germany. Conference: Deutsche Physikerinnen Tagung, 25.-28.11., Freiburg, Germany. Participants: Rike (talk), Daniela, Katharina, Larissa (shared poster). The poster entiteled "IR-Spectroscopy and Artificial Amino Acids: A Great Couple for Protein Biophysics" was awarded a poster prize - congratulations! Larissa and Daniela hand in their BSc thesis - Congratulations!! Both decide to continue working in the group as research assistants :-) Oct 2012 Invited talk (Jens): GRK "Chemical Photocatalysis", 11.-12.10., Regensburg, Germany. Andreas hands in his PhD thesis - Congratulations! And off for parental leave... Best wishes to the young family! Sep 2012 Conference: 4th Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium of the CCS and GDCh, 03.-07.09., Beijing, China. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Beginn of installation of our new Laser System III (Spectra Physics Tsunami and Spitfire ACE) and Laser System IV (Spectra Physics MaiTai and Spitfire ACE) (finished in Mar 2013). Jul 2012 Conference: 6th International Conference on Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS 2012), 16.-18.07., Berlin, Germany. Participants: Luuk (Poster), Rike (Poster), Jens (invited talk). May 2012 Conference: 111th Bunsentagung, 17.-19.05., Leipzig, Germany. Participants: Rike, Jens. Rike receives a "hot topic award" for her poster - congratulations! Leipzig seems to be Rikes city ;-) Group day: Great guided tour at the "Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft". Research "von Humboldt-style". Afterwards we visit Solzer for traditional local food and of course apfelwein. Apr 2012 A warm welcome to our new group members Larissa Blankenburg and Daniela Kern, who join for their BSc thesis! Mar 2012 Youssef received an Alexander von Humboldt-Fellowship - Congratulations!!! Feb 2012 Welcome to Youssef El Khoury from Petra Hellwig´s Lab in Strasbourg, who joins us as a PostDoc! Conference: 56 th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, 25.-29.02., San Diego, California. Participants: Rike (Poster). Jan 2012 Our new Laser System II, (Coherent Mira & Legend 800 nm, 4.5 mJ, 1 kHz, 90 fs), optical table and clean room housing is installed! Dec 2011 Conference: International Workshop on Ultrafast Chemical Physics (UCP ’11), 14.-16.12., University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Participants: Luuk (Poster), Rike (Poster), Jens (talk). Nov 2011 Conference: Symposium at AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25.11., Participants: Jens (talk). Conference: Physikerinnentagung der DPG, 03.-06.11., Saarbrücken, Germany, Participants: Rike (Poster), Katharina (Poster). Rike honoured as MINT ambassador of the year (MINT Botschafterin des Jahres) by MINT - Zukunft schaffen. Oct 2011 Matthias Polkehn (Chemistry) joins us for his Abteilungspraktikum! Katharina handed in her BSc Thesis - an excellent reason for liquid nitrogen ice cream!! 1 MEUR grant for setting up LaserLabII - a good excuse for having cake :-) Sep 2011 Martin handed in his BSc Thesis - Congratulations!! Conference: XIX. International Conference on "Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research", 11.-17.09., Göttingen, Germany. Participants: Manuel (Poster) Manuel recieves an award for "Presentation of an outstanding poster" about the photoswitchable catalyst! Aug 2011 Sabrina Österitz joins the group as a new lab technician to work in our protein lab. Welcome Sabrina, great to have you here! Jun 2011 Conference: 110th Bunsentagung - "Analysis and Control of Ultrafast Photoinduced Reactions", 02.-04., Free University Berlin, Germany. Participants: Jens (talk, selected for hot topics session), Luuk & Manuel (talk, selected for hot topics session). Conference: TRVS XV, Ascona, Italy. Participants: Luuk (Poster), Rike (Poster). May 2011 Invited talk (Jens): SFB 860 Kolloqium "Integrative Strukturbiologie dynamischer makromolekularer Komplexe", 11.05., Göttingen, Germany. Apr 2011 Katharina Eberl (Biophysics) joins the group for her BSc research - welcome! Conference: 17. German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, 08.-11.04., Beckman-Center, Irvine, CA, USA. Participants: Jens. Invited talk (Jens): 07.04. CaSTL Seminar, UCI, USA. Conference: Faraday Discussion 150: Frontiers in Spectroscopy, 06.-08.04., Basel, Switzerland. Participants: Andreas (Poster). Andreas is awarded the Skinner Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Congratulations!! Mar 2011 Conference: DPG Frühjahrstagung der Sektion AMOP,13.-18.03., Dresden, Germany. Participants: Rike (talk). Martin Essig (Biophysics) joins the group for his BSc research! Jan 2011 Meeting: DECHEMA Ausschuss „Kinetik und Reaktionsmechanismen“, 10.01., Frankfurt, Germany. Participants: Jens (invited talk). Nov 2010 Conference: TCSDM 2010 Transient Chemical Structures in Dense Media, 29.11.-03.12., Paris, France, participants: Jens (invited talk). Oct 2010 Luuk van Wilderen from Imperial College joins us as a PostDoc - Great to have you here! Sep 2010 Sabrina Steinwand (Chemistry) joins us for her Abteilungspraktikum - Welcome! Aug 2010 Summerschool: The 20th Jyväskylä Summer School, 16.08.-20.08., Jens gives a course about (bio-)molecular dynamics from femtoseconds to seconds and how to measure it. Online application is possible on the website. Conference: 5th International Conference on Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS), Minneapolis, MN, August 18-20, participant: Andreas (poster). July 2010 Invited talk: 12.07. IPTC , University of Bonn, Speaker: Jens. Conference: PhD Meeting of the DAS, 12.-13.07., Zurich, participant: Andreas (talk). Congratulations to Andreas for a DAS travel stipend! June 2010 Invited talk (Jens): 22.06., SFB Lichtinduzierte Dynamik in molekularen Architekturen, Würzburg. 21.06. IFB Institute canoe trip on the Lahn river. Photos coming... Conference: IBBI 2010 Isolated Biomolecules and Biomolecular Interactions, 12.06.-17.06. Berlin, participants: Jens (invited talk). Conference: ICUSD 2010 International Conference on Ultrafast Structural Dynamics, 07.06.-10.06. Lausanne, participants: Andreas (poster), Rike (talk). 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates. participant: Rike. See here for an interview with Rike. Obviously it was great fun! May 2010 Conference: Bunsentagung 2010, 13.05.-15.05., Bielefeld, participants: Andreas (talk), Jens (talk), Rike (Poster). Mar 2010 Conference: ACS Spring Meeting, 21.-25.03., San Francisco, USA, participant: Eliza-Beth (talk). Feb 2010 Rike got accepted as a participant of the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates. from June 27 to July 2 2010, at Lindau (Germany) - congratulations! The Bredenbeck group continues in Frankfurt. Jens accepted the offer of the University of Frankfurt for a full Professorship (W3) in Biophysics. He had to decline an offer from the University of Bielefeld for a full professorship (W3) in Physical and Biophysical Chemistry. Jan 2010 Conference: 45th Winterseminar on Biophysical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cybernetics of Cell Function, 09.01.-23.01., Klosters, Switzerland, participants: Jens (invited talk), Andreas (talk). Nov 2009 Symposium on Light Regulation in Chemistry and Biology in Schloss Rauischholzhausen, 09.11.-10.11., participants: Manuel, Eliza-Beth. Conference: Deutsche Physikerinnentagung in Frankfurt, 05.11.-08.11., Rike speaks about our work on energy transfer. Finn Bredenbeck is born on 01.11. !!! Oct 2009 Invited talk (Jens): 19.10. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Sep 2009 Rike recieves the Poster Award of the International Bunsen Discussion Meeting - congratulations! Conference: International Bunsen Discussion Meeting in Leipzig on Molecular Transformations and Dynamics in Complex Molecular Environments, 27.09.-30.09., participants: Rike (Poster), Andreas (Poster), Jens (invited talk). Jun 2009 Invited talk (Jens): 30.06., SFB450 Analyse und Steuerung ultraschneller photoinduzierter Reaktionen, Berlin. Our research at the night of science (19.06.). Invited talk (Jens): 23.06. University of Bielefeld. May 2009 Invited talk (Jens): 04.05., BMRZ-CEF Workshop 2009: Magnetic Resonance and Complementary Techniques for Macromolecular Systems. Mar 2009 Newspaper article about our research and the ADUC award appears in the Frankfurter Rundschau (19.03.). [pdf] Rike got accepted as a participant of the MentorinnenNetzwerk - happy networking! Andreas got accepted as a participant of the 59th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry from June 28 to July 3 2009, at Lindau (Germany) - congratulations! Workshop: 23.03.-27.03. Ski and Science Workshop of the PTC in Hirschegg, Austria, Waldemar Petersen-Haus, participants: Rike, Andreas, Jens. Workshop: 18.03.-21.03. 4th Ringberg meeting on Molecular Physics 2009, Ringberg-Castle, participants: Jens (invited talk). Jens recieves the ADUC Award (ADUC Jahrespreis für Habilitanden) of the German Chemical Society at the Chemiedozententagung in Göttingen (08.03.-11.03.). Invited talk (Jens): 05.03. Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg. Dec 2008 Jens appointed Adjunct Investigator of the Frankfurt Cluster of Excellence "Macromolecular Complexes" for the next evaluation period. Nov 2008 Congratulations to Eliza-Beth for being awarded a well deserved Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers! Damien is leaving us for his new job at the PETAL petawatt laser facility, a forerunner to the HiPER project. Be carefull with the kJ pulses! Oct 2008 Conference: 30.10.-31.10. Ultrafast Chemical Physics, Glasgow, UK, participants: Jens (talk). Aug 2008 We are happy to welcome Eliza-Beth Lerch from Steve Leone's Group at Berkeley as a postdoc! Cycling trip along the Main River with the Wachtveitl Group, participants: Andreas, Eliza-Beth, Jens, Rike, Yunliang. Jul 2008 Invited talk: 14.07., University of Tübingen, speaker: Jens. Andreas is awarded the ETH Silver Medal for an outstanding master thesis - congratulations! He presented our work at the Ultrafast 2008 in Stresa, Italy [ .pdf ]. Jun 2008 Conference: 18.06-22.06. Excited States in Condensed Phases, Sicily, Italy, participants: Jens (invited talk). Conference: 09.06-13.06. Ultrafast Phenomena, Stresa (Lago Maggiore), Italy, participants: Andreas (poster), Jens (invited talk). May 2008 Invited talk: 25.05., Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Kiel, speaker: Jens. Invited talk: 09.05., University of Konstanz, speaker: Jens. First thesis from Frankfurt: Rike handed in her diploma thesis in biochemistry - congratulations! Conference: 01.05-03.05. Bunsentagung, Saarbrücken, Germany, participants: Jens (talk). Apr 2008 Invited talk: 25.04., Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Giessen, speaker: Jens. Andreas won a prestigious Kekulé-scholarship of the FCI (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie) - congratulations! Conference: 06.04.-10.04. ACS Spring Meeting, New Orleans, USA, participants: Jens (talk). Mar 2008 Yunliang Li from Dwayne Millers Lab at the University of Toronto joins the group as a postdoc! Workshop: 10.03.-14.03. Ski and Science Workshop of the PTC in Hirschegg, Waldemar Petersen-Haus, participants: Andreas (talk), Damien. Feb 2008 Featured in Science "Editors Choice": Ultrafast Two Dimensional-Infrared Spectroscopy of a Molecular Monolayer. Featured in Nature "Research Highlights": Ultrafast Two Dimensional-Infrared Spectroscopy of a Molecular Monolayer. Featured in Europhysics News Highlights: Ultrafast energy flow in model biological membranes. Nov 2007 Ultrafast energy flow in model biological membranes selected for the 10th aniversary issue of New J. Phys., featuring its most significant publications of the past 10 years. Andreas Messmer (Chemistry) from ETH Zürich joins the group as a PhD student! Oct 2007 Featured on IOP select: Ultrafast energy flow in model biological membranes. Damien Bigourd from Bertrand Girards group at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse joins the group as a postdoc! Aug 2007 Invited review on transient 2D-IR spectroscopy appears in ChemPhysChem. Great canoeing trip with the Wachtveitl group, participants: the whole group - i.e. Rike and Jens ;-). Rike Müller-Werkmeister (Biochemistry) joins the group as a diploma student! Jul 2007 Our Laser System I (Spectra Physics Tsunami & Spitfire, 800 nm, 3.0 mJ, 1 kHz, 100 fs) is up and running. Jun 2007 Our new optical table is installed. Move from Amsterdam to Frankfurt. May 2007 Conference: TRVS XIII in Munich, participants: Jens (talk and poster). Conference: Time and space resolved methods in molecular biophysics, Meeting of the German Biophysical Society, participants: Jens (talk). Apr 2007 Jens appointed Adjunct Investigator of the Frankfurt Cluster of Excellence. Nov 2006 Conferment of the Sofia Kovalevskaja Award to Jens by the Federal Minister of Education and Research. Our start-up is secured :-)